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WEASELS ARE KIL
.Of All the Flesh Eaters is th
Persistent Hunter.
The, smallest quadrupeds, , th
shrews, are t1ie fiercest and most
Bloodthirsty animals, but coming tip
the scale of size we find the smallest .h
carnivora, the weasels, decided killers;
often taking life for the mere fun of b
it '
But, of all the -flesh eaters the tittle
snakelike, gliding, !short -legged 'crea-
ture with the apparent power to van-
ish is the most persistent hunter and
chaser of its .numerous prey, and it is, ,ix.
very doubtful if it often goes hungrr:;,,r
there is too much to be had for the N
kind of bunting the weasel does, and se
its cousin the mink, merelya jrger ,A
edition of the weasel, is anothei slick 'pe
specimen at obtaining a meal whet, Be
desired. '
One of th,e rarest and most exciting .r
incidents of the forest is afforded ;b
a weaselchasing a squirrel. This,,
begun on the ground not too great
distance from any large tree, where
the pursued knows it will be safe, is
often a nip -and -tuck affair, for while
neither creature can'tiake the best of
1 time, as compared with the rabbit or
jumping mouse, they are not slow and.
they are nearlymatched, both in
straightaway going ,rand in dodging. un
Thus through brush . and bramble, mo
over stones_ and fallen trees, along f
prone branches and old fence tops and
to the very base of the trunk sought art
the chase goes and may continue upns`.,
the trunk; the weasel, then, unless
young and inexperienced, knows that
even with its powers of climbing, .r
which, are of no mean sort, it cannot ` ,
compete with the red or the gray ,.,w
squirrel, the latter possessing not only
most ideal claws for the purpose; but
else/a balancing tail that aid's greatly.
Anyway, going up and into the
branches the equirrel is safe from
every foe, even the swift -winged
hawk, unless taken by surprise. And,
as a matter of fact, most of the cap-
tures by the killers are made by lying
in wait. At this sort of thing the
smallest carnivora hardly eq,tial the
cats or the fox, but they make use of
oni time to time.
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